Quotes by: Ransom Riggs

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

Ransom Riggs

I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.

Ransom Riggs

Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and dumped in disorganized bins, selling 10 for a dollar. I wondered how people could give up pictures of their great-grandparents for complete strangers to paw through - or why complete strangers would want them.

Ransom Riggs

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.